The 49th Deceptive Phantom

  "Hmm, they shouldn't be chasing us anymore." The village chief panted and replied, "Do you know what happened to that old lady just now?"

  "I don't know, it's too scary!" I shook my head, still in a state of shock.

  "That's a dark art! It was created by the ancient Western Xia people, commonly known as 'Living Dead'. This dark art can control the movement of corpses, it's really terrifying. I thought that the Western Xia people had been extinct for decades and this dark art had been lost, but unexpectedly, it has appeared again tonight!" The village chief croaked in response.

  Xixia people? Can control the corpse with evil techniques? In my mind, I couldn't help but think of Jinxiang Yu and Qiuyan's figures. They are the only living Xixia descendants in this world, could it be that they were secretly controlling the corpse to attack me and the village chief earlier? Did they also enter Duanhun Mountain tonight?

  I shuddered all over and said, "Village chief, why don't we just not go to Duanhun Cliff?"

  "Not going to the Soul-Breaking Cliff?" The village chief burst into loud laughter, "Why not go? I've been waiting for this day for a lifetime! To unravel the mystery of the ancient well's ominous legend after four sentences, do you know how I've spent my life? It was with food that had no flavor and nights without sleep... Now that someone has finally said they'll tell me the secret of the ancient well's legend, can I not go? Even if there's a great danger, I will still go!"

  Looking at the village chief's dwindling back in the darkness, a deeper fear rose in my heart. In Huanglong Village, it was not just him who went mad, but many villagers I didn't know about also went mad to unravel the mystery of the ancient well's evil rumors!

  But that mysterious woman asked the village chief and me to go to Duanhun Cliff tonight, will she really tell the village chief the secret hidden in the last four sentences of the ancient well omen?

  I have a faint feeling that things are not as simple as they seem, and it may be a conspiracy! The village chief was blinded by the sudden news and acted impulsively for personal gain.

  I leaned against the big tree, panting softly, my mind a jumbled mess. If it was really Jinxiang Yu and Qiuyan who controlled that corpse to attack us just now, then we would definitely run into them tonight in this Duanhun Mountain. They absolutely wouldn't let go easily!

  After resting for about ten minutes, the village chief shouldered that heavy package and beckoned me to continue on. Having had the experience just now, I didn't dare fall behind again, trying my best to keep pace with the village chief.

  A gust of night wind came, and I suddenly smelled a faint scent of medicine wafting from the village chief's body. Hmm, no, this scent is so familiar?

  I remembered that this medicinal smell I had smelled in Gabada's medicine hut before. Could it be that the village chief was injured and went to Gabada's medicine hut, letting Gabada apply medicine for him? But, the village chief's energetic appearance clearly didn't seem like someone who was injured?

  Under the clear moonlight, I looked at the village chief beside me with a puzzled gaze.

  The village chief seemed to feel that I was sizing him up and cleared his throat, shouting in a low voice, "What are you looking at? Watch your step!"

  I quickly turned my head and followed him as he hurried forward.

  As I walked further ahead, a layer of eerie fog slowly emerged from the dense forest, swirling around my feet. The fog was originally colorless, but at this moment, under the illumination of the cold moonlight, it emitted an aura that was both mysterious and terrifying.

  In the dense and dark forest, not even a single bird's chirp or insect's hum could be heard, only the sound of my footsteps and the village chief's, as well as the thumping of our hearts against our chests.

  As we walked, suddenly "pa" a sound, the village chief's flashlight in his hand inexplicably went out. I was startled and cried out, "Village Chief!"

  The village head stopped and adapted to the darkness in front of him, saying, "What's going on? Didn't the light bulb of the flashlight just blow up?"

  That's what I said, but I clearly saw the village chief's figure shaking twice in the darkness, and his surprise should not be inferior to mine.

  "Let's keep going forward..."

  "Uh-huh", I responded, and the two of us continued to grope our way forward in the darkness.

  After walking for a while, I suddenly heard an ethereal and fleeting voice rising up, as if it were from a very distant place, yet also whispering in my ear, like someone humming a tune I couldn't understand in this deep mountain forest.

  My heart was racing wildly, just as I was about to remind the village chief, a chill suddenly rose from the back of my head, and my neck felt cool, as if a pair of icy, slippery hands had been placed on my neck, those hands were cold to the point of being temperatureless.

  There is no one behind me at all, who could it be?

  "Village head, there's... something... touching me from behind!" I couldn't help but cry out.

  "What?" The village chief suddenly stopped in his tracks, turned around, and looked back with a shocked expression.

  What did he see? I carefully turned around, and instantly petrified. Right where I was standing just now, a figure suddenly stood tall, with its back to me and the village chief.

  That figure was actually Lü Bu's wife!

  How did she come? Wasn't she afraid that the village chief would kill her and ran away without a trace? Why dare to follow us into Duanhun Mountain?

  I was stunned, and hastily wanted to run over to remind her to hurry up, but the village chief beside me held me back, hoarsely whispering, "Don't go, she's not Lian Tou!"

  The village head's words scared me to death, how could it not be Ya Tou? Now that we're so close, although Ya Tou is facing away from us, but that back and clothes are unmistakably Ya Tou!

  I rushed to the village head and shouted, "Village head, how can she not be a slave?"

  The village chief didn't answer me, but instead made a gesture to calm me down and took out the strange-shaped weapon from his bundle that had just beheaded the old woman.

  I was so nervous that if it really was Ya Tou, the village chief's knife would have no chance of sparing her life. The blood on my forehead surged upwards, and I blocked the village chief's way, shouting, "Village chief, please don't harm Ya Tou!"

  "Open your eyes and take a closer look, is she really a slave?" The village chief's tone was somewhat annoyed and tense.

  Just now I was so excited that I didn't notice anything unusual. Hearing the village chief say this, I quickly turned my head and looked again, and also found that something was wrong with Ya Tou.

  She remained with her back to us, motionless. If it was really her, she should have responded after hearing my conversation with the village chief, even if she didn't run away!

  I'm still worried, and I called out cautiously, "Girl?"

  But the person in front of him didn't react at all, still standing straight and motionless.

  "Who are you? Are you human or ghost, speak up!" I was both shocked and terrified.

  I didn't expect that as soon as I finished speaking, the girl in front of me suddenly slowly turned her body around. The movement was very awkward, it felt like watching a wooden puppet move, one action after another, not smooth at all.

  The village head saw that the girl had turned around, holding that strange-shaped short-handled weapon horizontally in front of her chest, fully alert and vigilant, with a look as if she was facing a great enemy.

  I took one look at this situation and knew it was bad, hastily pulling out the dagger that the village chief had given me before I left, my palms were all sweaty.

  At this time, the girl finally completed her turn, but just as her face turned around, my head suddenly exploded. How did the girl become like this?

  Her face had no facial features at all, just a flat layer of flesh, like the faceless man who practiced the "Invisible Face" skill in the movie.

  I saw Yaotou like this, I knew she was done for. Could it be that the village chief had killed her this afternoon and she had turned into a ghost to appear here?

  I remembered what she once told me to protect her, and suddenly my nose turned sour, tears streaming down, I shouted hoarsely, "Girl, do you think you died unjustly and are lonely on the way to the Yellow Spring, so you came to find me? If you want to take me away, then come and take me away, anyway, we'll have each other's company on the road to the Yellow Spring!"

  The village chief heard what I said and scolded me coldly, "You little brat, that's not the girl. You want to die? It's still too early for you to die, at least wait until tonight!"

  The village head repeatedly emphasized that it wasn't Lian'er, I hastily wiped away the tears from my eyes and asked suspiciously, "Really not Lian'er, then who is she?"

  "The village head said slowly, 'I don't know who she is, but it's definitely not Lü Tuo!'"

  At this time, the faceless thing in front of us moved, limping and walking towards us. I was shocked in my heart. What exactly is this strange thing? Why did it turn into a girl's appearance?

  In an instant, I knew I was wrong. That thing wasn't a donkey after all. At first, it was limping and staggering towards us, but the next second it suddenly appeared in front of me and the village chief.

  I let out a loud cry and retreated two or three steps before regaining my balance, in the midst of the crisis I saw that thing stretch out its sharp fingers towards the village chief's chest and thrust them in.

  If this plug is inserted, the village chief will definitely be disembowelled. I anxiously shouted, "Village chief, be careful!"

  Although the village head had a death wish, at this moment in time, I didn't want him to lose his life to this shameless thing. Because if the village head was killed by it, I would absolutely not be able to escape either!

  The village head shouted loudly and swung the weapon in his hand towards the thing's hands just as its sharp fingers were about to touch his chest.

  It looked extremely slow in movement and dull in reaction, but when the village chief's weapon was about to touch it, it suddenly dodged with incredible speed.

  The village head did not retreat, and one knife after another attacked the thing, but each attack was avoided by it. I watched with bated breath, knowing that if this tug-of-war continued, the village head would either be killed or exhausted to death.

  I forgot the fear in my heart, quietly turned around, gripped the dagger tightly and stealthily approached the back of that thing.

  My idea is to take advantage of the thing fighting with the village chief and stab it in the back.

  I didn't expect this idea would cost me my life.

  Just as I was about to approach it from behind, the thing suddenly sprouted many vines all over its body, like an old tree's roots, which instantly wrapped around my entire body.

  I didn't even have time to resist before being tightly wrapped up by those vines and quickly wrapping around my neck!

  My soul is scattered, I'm suffocating... Forbidden Dark Spirit

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